em "The wolf of Wall Street"

A sweet-tempered dyspeptic [ou a percepção classista da doença]

"While consumptive men represented the pinnacle of overworked artistic genius, consumptive women represented the ideal of a delicate and confined femininity. But this representation was not relegated to the sick bed, or even to the infirm. Througout the 1840s, fashion visibly changed in time with this consumptive ideal."
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Note that the paragraphs above deal specifically with the notion of consumption in the upper classes. For lower class sufferers, the implications of consumption were markedly different. In an 1859 article, James Turnbull emphasized the relationship between consumption and depravity."